GRE Word List
CONSANGUINITY
the quality or state of being consanguineous
The meaning of the word consanguinity is the quality or state of being consanguineous.
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| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |